During the Special Session of the D-8 Commission Meeting held under the chairmanship of Turkey, UNCTAD presented the key elements of the joint D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation - UNCTAD Guiding Principles for Investment Policy making. Important agenda items regarding the forthcoming D-8 Summit Meeting were discussed. In January 2020, …
This paper examines the economics of the landed price of natural gas in India through the Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline in comparison with the existing agreements for the import of liquefied natural gas. It reviews the natural gas demand and supply scenario in India, and assesses the efficacy of the pipeline in …
The world's big powers have been told to expect a formal response as soon as today from the Tehran government that sets out an initiative designed to restart negotiations over Iran's nuclear programme. The letterfollows a conversation yesterday between Javier Solana, the European Union's foreign policy head, and Saeed Jalili, …
Speaking just days before a deadline set by world powers for Iran to reply to proposals to curb its nuclear ambitions, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country's supreme leader, said Wednesday that Iran would "continue with its path' of nuclear development, which includes the enrichment of uranium. Ayatollah Khamenei's comments suggested …
Siddharth Varadarajan New Delhi: In an attempt to address the pointed concerns India raised about the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline during the visit here of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last April, the Iranian government has handed over some fresh proposals and called for talks to quickly finalise the deal. The Iranian proposals …
The world's largest gas company, Gazprom of Russia, and the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) have signed an agreement for the development of Iran's oil and gas fields. This will give Gazprom access to the world's second-largest gas reserves. NIOC and Gazprom will cooperate in developing Iran's oil and gas …
BRITISH leader Gordon Brown has warned Iran it must freeze sensitive nuclear work or face more sanctions, in the first address by a British prime minister to the Israeli Parliament. Mr Brown also attacked Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's "abhorrent" threats against Israel and declared that Britain stood alongside the Jewish …
The government has proposed Iran to participate in the upcoming mega housing projects in the country. The proposal was made during a meeting between Federal Minister for Housing and Works Rehmatullah Kakar and Iranian Ambassador to Pakistan Mashallah Shakeri here on Friday. They discussed bilateral cooperation in different sectors, including …
Oil prices plunged below $130 a barrel yesterday, extending a sharp three-day decline and fuelling a second day of big gains in stocks that lifted Wall Street out of bear market territory. The continued fall in oil, which last week reached a record high of $147.27, combined with the rally …
Opec president Chakib Khelil warned on Sunday that oil prices will continue to rise because of the falling dollar, in an interview in the Algeria-News. "The price of oil will rise again in the coming weeks. We have to follow the evolution of the dollar, because a 1% fall in …
Madrid: Iran on Wednesday refused to follow Saudi Arabia in raising its crude production to calm volatility in the international oil markets, even as it remained ambivalent on whether Tehran will use oil as a weapon to retaliate if its nuclear installations came under attack from Israel. "We have some …
The simultaneous determination of heavy metals associated with airborne particulate matter in the atmosphere of the city of Isfahan (Iran) was performed by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES) after pre-concentration with sodium diethyldithiocarbamate. The pre concentration procedure developed found instrumental to determine the trace heavy metals associated with …
In Shiraz plain, there are 1070 ha of agriculture, 540 hectares of that is used for, vegetable cultivation. Two rivers are crossing Shiraz plain west to east. They are called Khoshk river and Soltanabad river. East and south of the city of Shiraz in two seprate countryside, people use polluted …
Atul Aneja DUBAI: India's Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has discovered a new oil field in Iran, the website of Iran State television said. "India's ONGC has discovered a new oil field in the Farsi oil block of the Persian Gulf,' Mahmoud Zirakchianzadeh, the managing director of Iran's State …
Sujay Mehdudia India very much willing to go ahead with the deal, says Murli Deora India to hold talks with Pakistan on transit issue Energy security remains our priority, says Minister Drawing flak from the Left for "moving slow' on the $7.4-billion Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline, the government on Monday said …
India, Pakistan and Iran are likely to meet next month in Tehran to resolve differences over the $7.5-billion gas pipeline that was first proposed in 1994. Petroleum Minister Murli Deora met Iran's Oil Minister, Gholam Hosein Nozari, on the sidelines of a meeting of the world's oil producers and consumers …
Forward movement on the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project has failed to enhance the UPA government's comfort level with the Left parties even though they have welcomed it. "It is a positive step in the right direction. We appreciate the talks India had with Iran on Sunday. The government should …
Iranians on Saturday were told to cut their electricity consumption by 10 per cent or face daily power cuts because of a severe drought and low production by hydroelectric power plants. Residents of the capital Tehran could face up to four hours of blackouts each day, officials said according to …
Pakistan has sent a proposal to China asking it to join the $7.5-billion Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project if New Delhi pulls out of the venture. The Chinese government has submitted a preliminary report to Pakistan seeking more information on the project. President Pervez Musharraf had invited China to join …
